LETTER ABOUT PERSONAL BANKING ACTIVITY OF PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON

Autograph letter signed by John Barnes. Georgetown, 10 May 1805. 1 page 4to. Georgetown cancel and remnants of original seal to verso. 

A letter from John Barnes written to Charles C. Ludlow in New York. Barnes is making Ludlow aware of a draft President Thomas Jefferson has made for $231.09 to a W.W. Hazard drawn on a branch of the Bank of New York. In a postscript to the letter, Barnes writes that the President has made Hazard aware of the outstanding draft. 

British-born Barnes (c.1730-1826) lived in America for nearly 70 years, according to an obituary for him. When the seat of government moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., Barnes followed and became a contractor for the Treasury Department. Eventually, President Jefferson, having considered Barnes a confidant and friend, appointed him a customs collector at Georgetown, a position he held for 20 years. 

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Small holes worn at creases.